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- From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: EMACS as default mail editor?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.121256.28881@slcs.slb.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 12:12:56 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.162506.13620@synapse.bms.com>
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- In article <1992Nov4.162506.13620@synapse.bms.com>, kaz@bms.com writes:
- >Does anyone know if it's possile to specify EMACS as as the default
- >editor in MAIL?
- >
- >The documentation for SET EDITOR in MAIL says to specify any callable
- >editor. I don't beleive that EMACS is callable, but I'm not sure about
- >that.
- >
- >I'm running EMACS v18.58.1 on VMS 5.4-2.
-
- If it has an executable in sys$share of the form xxxSHR.EXE with some required
- entry points, it can be considered callable by mail and other applications.
- Do:
-
- $ dir sys$share:*shr.exe
-
- If Emacs shows up in the list, you're in business. If not, you're not. There
- are a legion of other files matching this filespec that are not editors, by
- the way. UISSHR.EXE is not an editor...
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